Chief Secretaries, Directors General of Police of the 10 states and Chiefs of paramilitary forces are also expected to attend the meet.

The meeting was convened after the killings of 25 CRPF personnel in a Naxal attack in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district on April 24. In March, 12 paramilitary personnel were killed by the Naxals in the same district.

According Bengal government officials, the CM will not attend the meeting as she will be busy with prior engagements.

Banerjee had also skipped a meeting of the NITI Aayog last month. She had, however, deputed state Finance Minister Amit Mishra to represent the state but he was not allowed to attend it because of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision that only CMs and deputy CMs would be allowed to represent the state governments.

It is said that by skipping all crucial meetings called by the Central government, Banerjee is preparing the ground for floating an alliance of anti-BJP parties to fight the NDA in 2019 general elections.